Garden Work Parties
2024-03-23 13:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Volunteer in the Gandhi community garden!
Click here to register to volunteer!
Drop by our community garden any time between 1:00 and 3:00 pm on Saturdays to help us plant, tend, and harvest food and flowers with the community.
We also are looking for volunteers who can help us pack and deliver grocery bags to our neighbors.
Wear comfortable, weather-appropriate clothes and closed-toe shoes that you don’t mind getting dirty. Tools and gloves will be provided.

Want to have a group come by and volunteer? Contact christina@gandhiinstitute.org

May Community Dinner
2024-05-29 18:00 - 20:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Join us for our May Community Dinner on May 29 at 6 PM EST.
Bring a dish if you would like to, but don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own.
Everyone is welcome — you can donate if you would like to, but all we ask is that you bring curiosity, respect, and an appetite!
Let us know that you are bringing dishes or snacks by emailing katie@gandhiinstitute.org

Weekly Online Grief Circles (January-June 2024)
2024-01-04 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to register!
What keeps you up at night? What contributes to hopelessness? Join us for support online and in community, to honor our pain for the world and to unlock love and energy. Every kind of grief is welcome.
Grief circles Thursdays 12-1 pm EST
Questions? kit@gandhiinstitute.org / bianca@gandhiinstitute.org

Sharing Stories to Build Community
2024-06-22 10:30 - 13:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Register here!
Join us on June 22 at 10:30 AM EST to connect over a shared brunch & dialogue. Whether you’ve personally navigated life after incarceration or want to foster understanding and support, all are welcome to contribute their voices and experiences.
Bring a dish if you would like to, but don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own. Everyone is welcome, but we ask that you bring curiosity, respect, and an appetite!
Questions? Email Jonathon at jonathon@gandhiinstitute.org

June Community Dinner
2024-06-25 18:00 - 20:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Click to register here!
Summer’s here, and so are our Community Dinners! Don’t miss the next Community Dinner on June 25 at 6 PM. Bring a dish if you would like to, but don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own! Everyone is welcome.
Stop by or register using the link in our bio! Let us know that you are bringing dishes or snacks by emailing katie@gandhiinstitute.org

Conflict In The Comments 2.0
2024-07-26 12:00 - 13:30
A 90-minute online conversation
Relationships are being created, nourished and sometimes destroyed in online spaces. Are there ways to nourish authentic dialogue and conflict resolution when things get painful online? How can we deal with online hate and misinformation – or friends and relatives reposting such things – and get through heated arguments to meaningful communication?
Join Rivera Sun and Dominic Barter to explore these questions and emergent best practices for an online conversation, moderated by Erin Thompson.
These online skills can also translate into a toolbox that we can use in the street or around the dinner table to shift from fighting to opening hearts and minds.
Register Now!

Author/Activist Rivera Sun, is the Editor of Nonviolence News, a nationwide trainer in strategy for nonviolent movements, and the author of many books and novels, including The Dandelion Insurrection and The Way Between. She is the Advancing Nonviolence Coordinator for Pace e Bene and has been a social media for social change coordinator for Campaign Nonviolence, Metta Center for Nonviolence, and others.
Dominic Barter is internationally recognized as a reference in the field of restorative responses to conflict, starting in the gang-controlled shantytown favelas of Rio de Janeiro. He has spent over 28 years developing empathetic social technologies of dialogue, including 10 years as a collaborator in Redes Cordiais, a Brazilian program for social media influencers, politicians and journalists.
Deep Gratitude to our Friends and Co-Sponsors at Pace e Bene

August Community Dinner
2024-08-28 18:00 - 20:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
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Summer’s here, and so are our Community Dinners! Don’t miss the next Community Dinner at the Gandhi Institute on August 28 at 6 PM. Bring a dish if you want, but don’t worry, we’ll be cooking up a few of our own! Everyone is welcome.
You can register to join using the link in our bio! Let us know that you are bringing dishes or snacks by emailing katie@gandhiinstitute.org

Open House & Community Dinner 2024
2024-09-14 13:00 - 18:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
RSVP for September 14th 1-6pm!
We’re opening our doors for a day filled with food, fun, and fundraising!
We’re thrilled to open our doors and green spaces to our community in our 14th Annual Open House & Community Dinner on September 14th from 1-6pm. Snacks available throughout, but we’ll transition to a community dinner at 3:30.
Get a taste of what goes on at the Gandhi Institute through food, games, music, and more! (Some community partners will have some surprise activities you won’t want to miss!)
It’s a fun and family-friendly event, so bring your kids and friends!
RSVP today!

Nonviolence at Work Book Release Party!
2024-09-27 16:00 - 17:30 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
RSVP for Friday September 27, 4:00-5:30pm!

Please join Kit Miller and the Gandhi Institute staff to celebrate the publication of Culture Shift: Nonviolence at Work. The event will include refreshments, a reading, author Q&A and wonderful humans.

All books sold at the event will raise funds for the Gandhi Institute’s beautiful and essential work in Rochester, and beyond.

De-escalation Workshop
2024-09-28 13:00 - 15:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Come practice skills to reduce violence and help keep each other safe!
Join us on September 28th to learn and practice strategies that transform conflict and de-escalate tense situations. Participants will work collaboratively to respond to conflict in ways that enable and promote safe outcomes.
We welcome all community members to register!
Questions? Reach out to matt@gandhiinstitute.org

Embodying Nonviolent Communication
2024-10-21 17:00 - 19:30 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Click to register here!

Nonviolent Communication is a way to connect with yourself and others. Join Bianca, Katie, and Jonathon for five weeks of exploration and practice in Nonviolent Communication through thought, speech, and embodied practices.
This 5-week series will be on Mondays at 5:00 PM EST, from Oct. 21 – Nov.18, in-person at the Gandhi Institute.

On pricing:
We host events on a sliding scale economy to be more accessible and prevent finances from prohibiting learning, engagement, and opportunity to create a better world.

Our 3 suggested prices for Embody Nonviolent Communication are $20, $100, and $200.

No one will be turned away for a lack of funds, if you have any questions feel free to reach out to: bianca@gandhiinstitute.org

These prices reflect the cost for the institute to plan and facilitate the 5/ 2.5 hour sessions. These are suggestions, so feel free to donate another amount that might fit your situation, and please add Embodying Nonviolent Communication to the memo or notes.

We depend on our community to participate, inform, and partially fund our programming, so we truly appreciate your choice to support us in a way that aligns with you.

Community Dinner and Dialogue with L. Sebastian Purcell
2024-10-28 18:00 - 20:00 | M.K. Gandhi Institute, 929 S Plymouth Ave, Rochester, NY 14608, USA, Rochester, NY, 14608, United States
Join Dr. Purcell for dinner and discussion following his lecture on “The Aztec 5-Fold Path to a Good Life” for the English & Philosophy Department at Monroe Community College.
Community Dinner will be on Monday, Oct. 28 from 6:00-8:00 PM EST at the MK Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence.
RSVP HERE
